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The first F-15J rolled out in St. Louis on June 4, 1980, with its nuclear wiring removed and American jammers withheld. Mitsubishi built the...
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The first F-15J rolled out in St. Louis on June 4, 1980, with its nuclear wiring removed and American jammers withheld. Mitsubishi built the...
The only time a fighter has killed a satellite: Sept. 13, 1985, an F-15 Eagle pulled a 3.8g zoom climb past 38,000 feet at...
The F-15EX Eagle II is not stealthy and the US Air Force bought it anyway. It flies at Mach 2.5 against the F-35's Mach...
The F-15's radar had a speed gate set at 1,500 knots. SR-71 crews were cruising between 1,850 and 2,000. As pilot Richard Graham put...
In 1986 the Air Force planned to buy 750 F-22s. It built 187. Only 184 remain in the inventory today, and one currently flying...
An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot was shot down over Kuwait in the opening days of Operation Epic Fury by a Kuwaiti fighter in what...
Every pilot's account begins with the push — a jet that could out-climb its own weight, straight up. As the last F-15Cs head for...
Park the Air Force's newest fighter beside one built in the 1980s and you cannot tell them apart. That is exactly the misunderstanding. Beneath...
Two hundred miles off the California coast in 1985, an F-15 pilot hauled his fighter into a near-vertical climb and fired an 18-foot missile...
An F-15EX landed at Kadena this week to talk of "the next chapter of airpower" — but the jet belongs to a Florida test...